Business/Economy

Phillip Kunsberg became familiar with Los Alamos in the mid- to late-1980s, when he worked with scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a policy officer in the Department of Defense.
He moved to Los Alamos in 1989 and started the Technology Institute, a nonprofit organization that brought Russian and American scientists together to work on “non-lethal” activities. Kunsberg eventually became a technical staff member for the lab.
Kunsberg moved to New York City in 1996 to work for a venture capital firm.

As Mardi Gras 2012 reaches its pinnacle Fat Tuesday, the float making business remains in full gear ahead all year long. Mardi Gras World builds the big floats. Its studio also offer tours 12 months a year, seven days a week.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell to the lowest point in almost four years last week, the latest signal that the job market could be improving.

Still, the job market has a long way to go before it fully recovers from the damage of the Great Recession. Nearly 13 million people remain unemployed. And 8.3 percent unemployment is still painfully high.

One reason the unemployment rate has fallen for five straight months is that many people have stopped looking for work. The government counts people as unemployed only if they are actively looking for a job.

Federal officials plan to kill a private company's plans to start a national high-speed wireless broadband network after concluding it would in some cases jam personal-navigation and other GPS devices.

Last Wednesday, the Los Alamos County Planning and Zoning Commission approved a plan from Smith’s Food and Drug Center, Inc., to build a new fuel station at the corner of Trinity and Knecht, the site now occupied by a Shamrock gas station.

Smith’s is leasing the site from Polk JT Properties Ltd., with an option to purchase the property.
The new fuel center will be across the street from the recently approved Trinity Site development, where the new Smith’s 110,000-square-foot Marketplace is planned. However, Smith’s Manager John Roberts said the decision to build the fuel station was independent of the new center.

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Gov. Susana Martinez bills herself as the transparency governor, promoting her mandate that all state employee salaries be posted publicly, touting her support for a bill that would require agencies and elected bodies to post notices of their meetings 72 hours in advance and promising quick responses to requests for public records.

But open government advocates question whether Martinez is walking her talk.